I had two Nokia 1020s. Yes Windows 8 was a nightmare. The 38Mpix camera sensor at 1/1.5 inches, Zeiss lens, OIS coupled with Pureview software rendered stunning images. Especially low light. 9 years on I've never quite got the same joy out of Pixel Pro or IOS images.
Rally car lighting systems have more in common with aircraft lights. The landing lights on a 757 are standard GE units with 600w, 28v, bulbs, costing $50, that produce 750k candle power. Narrow beam. As bright as the sun. Wider beamed taxi and runway turnoff lights still use 450w.
"According to Eurostat, we pay €0.2246 per kWh here which is 22% higher than in the UK." Unmitigated drivel. Current UK prices are, i pay, euros €0.39 per kWh, charge before Government subsidy is euros €0.59 per kWh.
Those numbers look like they could be about right for 2020/2021, but using them in a 2023 article is meaningless given the effects of the war in Ukraine on gas and electricity prices. I don't know how much Portugal's grid depends on gas, but I could believe that it's less affected by gas prices than the UK grid is.
The Soundstage of TV and cinema 20+years ago was better. Today's Soundstage doesn't favour voice, instead we are aurally assaulted by staged, sfx, background noises to lend some semblance of reality. It's god awful.
I've stopped torturing my aural processor and reparsing mumbled phrases to make sense of the dialog. I've unplugged the bass, I don't want to be shaken off the sofa.
AND best of all it's subtitles all the way. Easy ro read, comprehend and no more " WTF did she just say?"
It doesn't take too many esoteric texts at $100 plus to make the university library photocopier a very attractive proposition at 5c per A4 page. Copyright law flexibility. Or there's LibGen.
Oh there is a god in heaven. When Asustek ran out of overpriced RT AX86Us I bit the Mikrotik bullet. Bought a hAP Ax3. Works like a dream, medium painful learning curve.
Where oh where do these figures come from? UK. I pay toda, domestic tariff, USD 0.42 per pKWh. Plus 5% Vat. That ignores the Standing Charge of USD 0. 56 per day connection charges, plus Vat at 5%.
I recently looked at upgrading my two laser printers to models that were ethernet and wifi. I got burned so badly by Epson and Inkjet I'll never look at that technology again.
Got the shock of my life at wifi printer hardware prices. Expensive.
I've an ancient, tank like, Dell 5120cn that I bought new from Noahs Ark or was it eBay in 2005ish?
Its lifetime page count has only just exceeded its monthly duty cycle. It will not die. A set of mfg. CMYB toners costs under $100 if purchased carefully. That's once every 3 years or so.
The back up laser is a donkey slow but reliable HP laser jet 2605dn. Solid, dependable. It was donated to me, free with a 1200 page count. The mfg. toner prices are still steep, so I avoid, and go for 3rd party cartridges. A set of CMYB is $60. I've only just put one set in since 2010.
I'll use these lasers till they or I die. Or I forget their lan IP address. Wifi connectivity is for the very rich.
I'm of the opinion that if printer manufacturers in the EU try pulling any 'use only my ink or toner' stunts they'll be facing a very very expensive showdown with Brussels or Strasbourg.
The top Amazon laser printers are monochrome Brother models. You can have wifi or duplex for $120. Both together costs $150. If you want color, duplex and wireless, it is $280. (Though I wonder if these have chipped toner or not.)
It was similar 10 years ago when we bought our Samsung laser. These prices seem very reasonable, especially if you subtract out the cost of included drums and toner. Am I missing something?
My parents have a Dell color laser print from ~10 years ago and it's amazing. It has ethernet and can scan-to-email with an auto document feeder. A full set of toners on Amazon was under $50 last time I bought some (they don't go through it much). I actually wanted to buy a new one for myself, but Dell are long out of the laser market and it doesn't seem like there is anything equivalent.
Wi-Fi connectivity can be trivially addressed in multiple ways:
* Linux computer (Raspberry Pi, router, etc) talking to the printer via USB and sharing it
* Linux computer with wireless & Ethernet acting as a network bridge, bridging the Ethernet to the wireless network
* Powerline/MoCa/etc adapter - it will be fine as printers don't need a lot of bandwidth
